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Tells the story of a young, unnamed ordinand with his mind full of God and his heart closed to love. After a nervous collapse in church, he is sent on a placement to London where he enters an unfamiliar world of outcasts, rent boys, fundamentalists, sado-masochists and AIDS.
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Michael Arditti's The Celibate is an ambitious work that challenges the standard parameters of the gay novel: although it could be classified as a coming-out tale, the book is more accurately described as the record of a spiritual journey with historical and overtly sexual overtones. Told in the first person, The Celibate is the story of an almost-priest who, after a nervous breakdown, begins dealing with his sexuality, a path that includes hustlers and s&m. The narrator's day job is guiding tourists through Jack the Ripper's crime scenes, and Arditti uses this material to show how the historical and the personal, the spiritual and the political inform one another, giving The Celibate depth and compassion. It is, in essence, a meditation on sex, violence, forgiveness, and faith.
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Michael Arditti is a novelist, short story writer and critic. His novels are The Celibate (1993), Pagan and her Parents - Pagan’s Father in the USA (1996), Easter (2000), Unity (2005), A Sea Change (2006), The Enemy of the Good (2009), Jubilate (2011) and The Breath of Night (2013). His short story collection, Good Clean Fun was published in 2004. He was awarded a Harold Hyam Wingate scholarship in 2000, a Royal Literary Fund fellowship in 2001, an Oppenheim-John Downes memorial award in 2003, and Arts Council awards in 2004 and 2007. He was the Leverhulme artist in residence at the Freud museum in 2008. His novels have been short- and long-listed for several literary awards and Easter won the inaugural Waterstone’s Mardi Gras award. In 2012 he was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of Chester.
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- PublisherSinclair-Stevenson Ltd
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 1856192199
- ISBN 13 9781856192194
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages352
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Book Description Hardcover. 341p., very good first edition in boards and unclipped dust jacket. A young ordinant becomes enmeshed in the underbelly of Victorian London mixing with rentboys, fundamentalists, sadomasochists and AIDS (time-tripping between 1888 and 1988). Seller Inventory # 37988
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket after Lucian Freud (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. SIGNED, DATED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLUE PEN, ON TITLE PAGE 'To Pauline With Much Love and thanks for many happy memories Michael (with printed surname 'Arditti' crossed out) 10-6-94'. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some slight browning to page block, not price clipped (£14.99), no other inscriptions, contemporary annotated newspaper review tipped in, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 341pp. The story of a young, unnamed ordinand with his mind full of God and his heart closed to love. After a nervous collapse in church, he is sent on a placement to London where he enters an unfamiliar world of outcasts, rent boys, fundamentalists, sado masochists and AIDS. The author's debut novel, scarce signed. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 008620
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